You may have read that listening to music while you work can improve productivity and the work you produce. But sometimes you might want to change it up a bit and learn a little something while you're at it. Listening to quality podcasts about the industry you work in can provide tips, techniques or insight that will help you in day-to-day business or when a tricky situation raises its head.

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It's been five years since a major release of one of the most respected Mac FTP applications, Panic's Transmit. Despite the wait, it seems several features will make it worthwhile. A big one for starters: SPEED! Transmit 4 boasts transfers up to 25x faster than previous versions thanks to a modified Twin-Turbo transfer engine, Multi-Connection transfers, and FXP support for server to server transfers.

Oh, and if your sick of FTP transfers stealing your delicious bandwidth, Transmit 4 now has support for bandwidth limiting (which sadly has been in other —even free— FTP apps for a while).

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The suspicions of many developers and SEO operatives have been confirmed: Google doesn't care about our Keywords.

Well, at least not keywords housed in meta tags. According to the official Google Webmaster blog in a post released on Monday, Matt Cutts explains Google's position on the usage of meta tags, focusing especially on keywords.

Q: Does Google ever use the "keywords" meta tag in its web search ranking?

A: In a word, no...

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